High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

GCMS High School, Gibson City, IL

GCMS High School is a public high school in Gibson City, part of Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley CUSD 5. It enrolled 275 students in 2024-25, with 12.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 275
Teachers (FTE): 22.0
Students per teacher: 12.5
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.4 higher than the district figure of 11.1. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.5

District11.1

Illinois13.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 815 N Church St, Gibson City, IL 60936
Phone: (217)784-4292
District: Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley CUSD 5
County: Ford County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 170004100254

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free or reduced-price lunch: 9835.6% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.